The speaker at our meeting on April 27 will be Dave Lawler, a seniorconsultant with Microsoft Consulting Services. Dave willcover "Business Process Design Patterns in BizTalk Server 2006."

Microsoft BizTalk Server provides sophisticated tools for developingbusiness processes. BizTalk Orchestration can manage thousands ofinstances of a business process running in parallel, ensuring thatincoming messages get routed to the correct instance, while savingand reloading the state of a business process as needed. Dave willlook at some advanced techniques for designing business processes.